The Current State of The Local Club Scene?

I've been talkin to a friend and I was surprised to know that mashups rule the dancefloors these days and the ALREADY small population of clubbers shrank in number.

The closing down of clubs is something that happens naturally but it's more surprising to see how what we once could play freely would have a different crowd or some crowds who would rather go with mainstream.

It's nice to know that there are still people into the overall sound not just because your famous.

I'm too sleepy to type. Til hen.

Good morning! .

The Luxury I Don't Have

I wish I had the luxury of most signed artists... Manager, their own sound engineers, marketing crew, etc.

I don't.

What I have is myself and all those roles crammed into one person who I become if needed at certain times. I can't say I'm a fulltime musician. Right now I am all of the above and as much as I enjoy doing it, I am spreading myself too thin and I know that. But as an independent electronic artist, I have to. I don't have the funding to JUST BE an artist but to play roles.

I make music then promote it. I create my website and update it. I mix down my album and produce it. I then plan launches and execute it. Add the design work I have to do for promo merchandises like shirts, pins, etc.

I'm not complaining. I just feel that I could be more productive and out there If I did have the help from people.

It's hard i tell you. Really hard.

Cy

Ps. If you know anyone willing to help or if you want to, feel free to contact me. I'd appreciate it a lot. :)

A Long Productive Day with a Nice Ending

Had a bunch of stuff listed to do outside but due to my tummy illness I decided to stay home and finally finish my site update and the monthly newsletter. It was a bit late since I got busy preparing for the launch but I'm just glad it's done. I just posted about the newsletter so just click on that and enjoy. I spent the whole day updating and to close it, I received my copy of Logic Studio. I've always wanted to get a copy and God's blessed me with a great deal for it. I had to get one for my band's album and for work stuff anyway.

So there... Another day. I'm releasing my latest, Manila Electronica, end of November :)

Cy

Check out our monthly newsletter as I talk about the launch, getting on Itunes, Depeche Mode's influence, my fave Fatboy Slim tune, and advice on getting content onto your site/blog for free.

http://silverfilter.com/silverfiltermonthly

Enjoy!

Cy

Almost Forgot

I Almost dozed off without my entry for the day.

Well, I need to work on my site and newsletter update cuz I owe it to
everyone. I mentioned earlier in Twitter how I tend to be irked a the
fact I haven't updated the site whereas during the other site version,
I hardle updated at all. I aim to a least update once and keep the
newsletter coming monthly as well as with th daily blogs.

For the silverlisters on ygroups, don't worry, I just included you
guys in this update since I'm reposting that I'm on iTunes now as well
and you can follow me on Twitter.com/silverfilter

I just spent my last hours awake defragmenting my computer and I'd
suggest you do that weekly or monthly a least to keep your computer
system running smoothly and quickly.

That's It for now. I hope I can do some updates by Tom. And if you're
gear hunting, do check out the stuff I'm letting go of ;)

God bless!

Cy

iTunes

Once again, I'm now on iTunes!!! Just do a search on silverfilter :)

Cy

Errors. Corrections.

I have "to" fix the site...

Philippines.

And "in" terms of. I accidentally typed on since I and o are beside each other.

Cy

Takin Over The World

Today I finally found out that I am now on iTunes, napster, and Amazon.com
. There are 2 more digital stores but they haven't seem to have fixed
Their catalog yet. Honestly, I'm good with iTunes and amazon and both
would do. All the rest are just bonuses for me.

So now I'm on iTunes. So what?! Now comes the hard work of promoting
and um, promoting more just to get the word out. I have a ton of
things to do now and gettin on iTunes makes it a task and at the same
time changes the ballgame for the better. I have fix the site and
prepare for a nice monthly update. Both updates should integrate the
iTunes link nicely.

Unfortunately, for Philippine buyers, Amazon may be the only solution
since iTunes music isn't supported in the philipines at the time of
writing, which is of course not a bad thing cuz both are online
anyway. I don't see any big difference in what you'll get on terms of
my music.

Right now, I have Devotion on those stores and the back catalog can
easily be availed on the buy section of the official site. My dance
stuff will be coming out soon so I'll be working on getting myself on
Beatport this time.

That's it for now. 2nd day of blogging back!

God bless and do check out the album and spread the word to your
friends around the globe. Just share the link!

Thanks again. See ya, Tomorrow!

Cy

Always apologizing.

I must admit that I always tend to fail at updating my blog and that makes me so bad at it. I really do want to but I might not have gotten the habit down good. I really hope I could change that. I owe tons of updates and it really is way delayed. But instead of a run down of the things missed, let's just pick up from today. Maybe a few flashbacks here and there but let's look forward.

My body's aching as I write this and for some strange reason, I feel a bit sick. But I have two meetings tonight...
I'm writing a school hymn which is pretty exciting and the 2nd meeting is for my gig with Funkavy in Boracay for Halloween. It's gonna be quite different and interesting so stay tuned. Free vacation is very welcome. Hehe

That's it for now. More to come.

God bless!

Cy

A Dependence On Computers

From a stat update I made and some exchange of replies, the idea to write about the computers I've had over the years came to mind and here it is... I feel like this would be interesting.


The first ever computer I've used extensively is the Pentium 1 or 2 desktop my dad had in his office. I wasn't much into computer music then but I was into technology already. That's where I learned Fruity Loops and making electronic music. That simple computer helped in that spark, which led me to who I am today as an electronic musician. Who would've known that a simple desktop computer could help shape my destiny, right?

I got my first ever laptop I think right before I graduated college. I asked for a laptop as a grad gift because I was so fascinated by electronic music that I wanted to get deeper into it. Plus the fact that back then, I was planning on being a web designer. I even took the course. But long story short, I never pursued it. I still have the books to prove it though haha Going back, my first ever laptop was an Asus Pentium 3 laptop with I think had 256 MB of RAM. I LOVED that laptop and have made beautiful music with it. I made my first EP on it and it was a helpful piece of equipment during that phase of my life learning Electronic music. It was also back then when I made the transition from Fruity Loops to Reason because I got tired of the bugs in FL. That ASUS notebook was a workhorse and not until its CD drive gave in, that I decided to sell it. But looking back, that's the most expensive laptop I've owned EVER, since we all know how much they were back then... I believe it had 10 gigs which I later upgraded to 40. wow haha

The 2nd laptop, which I got right before I sold my ASUS, was a Compaq Presario 2500. It's a Pentium4 machine with 2.6Ghz which I think I upgraded to a gig RAM and has 80 gigs HD. I still use it up to now. It's actually what I'm using as I type this. It's been demoted to my surfing and desktop applications laptop but it's still a steady worker. The 2 major problems I had with this were the keyboard replacement, which I had replaced by HP themselves, and when my HD crashed. That's where I upgraded the HD. I lost a lot of music during the crash. It was a hard lesson but needed. Since the repair and upgrade, t's been running smoothly...

The 3rd laptop is an HP Pavillion DV2000 which I got a HUGE discount upon getting it. Unfortunately, it had media Center as its OS and it took me months to almost a year before I got to use it properly cuz I had to downgrade it to XP pro and the SATA discs on it didn't agree with the OS change so I had to sort it out for so long. Really bad. Eventually, it worked and it's been my workhorse since I think 2007? I upgraded the RAM to 1.5gig and the HD is I think 120. It's a core2duo machine 1.8. It's feature packed because back then it ws the top of the line and I wanted to get the best I could find coz it should last me years. I'm not the type of person who always upgrades. If it works for me, I still stick with it. Another reason why I'm STILL using my old pentium 4 PC. The HP's fan bogged down so I need to have it fixed asap because we're finishing the Lovecore album on it. I also did a LOT of tracks and ads on that machine. I finished and created Devotion using my HP laptop. It has served me well and I still plan to keep it.

with the fan down and the HP rendered unuseable, I unfortunately, HAD to look for a replacement. Long story short, God blessed me with a new Macbook Pro.

My current one is a 15" MBP 2.53 with 4gig ram. It's the entry level for the 15" MBP's and I settled for it because of two things... I didn't have the money for the 17 and I could manage with the specs since I was a happy camper with a 1.83 so what more with the 2.5 right? We shall be doing some parts of the Lovecore album on it and hopefully more when I do get Logic 9 and I'll be mixing my new album on the new machine already.

God's blessed mw with so much though I find myself dependent on computers for work, which I'm sure how a lot of big companies are. I just find it interesting how I can feel inadequate without it especially for work.

Cy